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Giant Paintball Park
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877-442-6897 |
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Address: |
88 Fair Drive
Costa Mesa, California 92626
USA
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| Last There: |
January 20th, 2008 |
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Paintball
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3 years |
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Other Fields
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SC Village - Lots of walking but fun fields when it is not 100 vs. 100 and summer is frickin HOT!
Jungle Island - Just right but further to drive
Conquest - Longer drive but a fun small area.
Hollywood Sports - First time I went; I HATED it! Don't know if I'll go again. Refs were crappy.
Camp Pendleton - Trying it out on 03/22/08 |
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I could tell you, but then I would have to kill you. |
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This is perfect for company team building exercises and only if you need to paintball but do not have enough gas money to travel. While in the staging arear walking off the field or getting ready to go on; keep your mask on! Too many children and other newbies leaving barrel plugs off. You're always hearing, "put your barrel plug on player!" or else you are the one saying it. It used to be 2 master bedroom size rec fields, but they changed it to one bigger rec field and a speedball field with too many air bunkers. A lot of wanna be pro players below the age of 18 think their all that and like to overshoot people. |
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| Date There: |
January 5th, 2008 |
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Paintball
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6 months |
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Other Fields
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None in Costa Mesa. I go to hollywood sports and sc though. |
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Directions
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You don't want them. |
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Well basically i hear all this hype about a new paint ball place, so i decide to look it up by information and ask them the time there open and directions because i was going to go straight there from work and didn't have access to a computer and there not listed.. So i drive home go on there website. They have 2 different numbers posted wow...I found the right number to call and According to there website it says Saturdays 8-10pm and Sundays blah blah well it was a Saturday and i wanted to call to make sure. They say they close at 4 today.. Um its Saturday.. and its around noon for me and i ask how much would it cost to play for 3-4 hours. 25 $ she says and the lady was a complete *#%$* to me when i asked why was it so much for 3 hours. When i saw posted all over signs at holly wood sports that it was 5$ play.. So i just go because i Really wanna check this place out and i get there and this is the smallest place i have ever seen. Horrible 3 courses super small terrible staff. No thank you ever again. |
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| Date There: |
December 8th, 2007 |
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Paintball
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2 years |
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Other Fields
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Jungle Island and SC Village
There's no comparison. Giant Paintball is a nightmare. Please see the review below. |
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I'm not going to give directions, because honestly. . . you shouldn't go there. . . |
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First I'll describe the park, them I'll give you my experience.
I find it funny that they called this place "Giant Paintball." That's like calling a 6'5'' 300lbs man, "tiny." This place is so small it's a joke. 3 fields. Each field is very small. Put it this way. . . there was no reason to advance forward from a bunker. From the back of our side, I could accurately hit someone on the other side. The shop was ok. Unfortunately, the people working there didn't know what they were doing (more on this later).
There were two positives to this park.
1) The rest-rooms were nice, and they worked!
2) There were no walk on players! (seriously!)
Normally we do private groups at Jungle Island. They have a lot of enjoyable fields. And if you get the right ref, you'll have a lot of fun. Most of us have our own gear and bring our own paint, so we can usually start rather quick. At Jungle we're usually playing by 9:30am. And that's with a group of 30-40 people.
Ok, now for this weekends experience. . .
We started arriving around 7:30am. We wanted to get good parking and get geared up by 8:30 so we can start playing right away. Well, 8:30 rolls around and our group of 16 are the only people there. No walk on's, no other private groups. . . nothing. Around that time we walked over to their shop to get registered. We thought, "these fields suck, but at least we're going to have the place to ourselves!"
Any of you who have done a private group before know how it goes. Get your waivers signed and get the money together so you're not waiting on anyone. We did that. Well, the kid working the register obviously didn't know what he was doing. Enter, Chris (I think that was her name). This very well may have been the first time this lady has ever seen a paintball. The word "clueless" is an understatement. It easy took her 20 minutes to work the credit card machine. Another 10 minutes for them to print the correct amount of wrist bands. Now it's 9:30. Oh, and I forgot to mention, they force you to watch a video to explain what paintball is. (Geee, thanks Hollywood sports, I would have never known that wearing a mask is important).
Another big problem, on Saturdays, they force you to buy their paint. Fine. I was expecting the typical Hollywood Sports paint. It's not great. . . but I've had worse. We asked the kid behind the counter about our paint. He said, "I don't think you bought paint." Oh yes we did. What was that extra $35 per person for? The kid picks up his cell phone and calls our favorite person Chris. She returns. After a careful (10 minute) examination of the receipt, she said, "I just need to check what's the price for 500 paintballs." ????? Now it gets interesting. First off, if she turned around she would see prices behind her. And second, it was $35 for 2000, not 500. In her mind $140 for 2000 rounds is a bargain, I guess. This clueless woman needed to consult with 2 more people for over another 20 minutes to figure it out. (Seriously, how hard can this be???) Next thing I know, I see them carry this paint out too us. It's in a generic brown box with a label that says "SECONDS". Every one of us have high end markers, and they're giving us "SECONDS". Great. . . just great. And too top it off, every bag had broken paint in it. Fine, I give up. At this point it's 10:30am. We have crap paint. We're frustrated. And honestly, I just wanted to go have a margarita and call it a day. But let's give it a try. . . .
First game, I realized something. . . I can't hit the side of a barn with this paint. I've never seen a ball fly so bad in my life. After 30 shots, my first break. The paint broke about every 30 to 50 shots, and when it did, it was bad. It was that thick blue gunk that you'll see noobs using from time to time. I couldn't take it anymore. . . I switched to my own paint. What would they do, tell me to go home? That would be a favor to me. . .
Well, you get the point. About 12:00, my marker decided it's had enough. It stopped working. At that point, I was done. And I was happy about that.
Here is the one and only thing that was awesome about this trip. . .
Bruce, our ref.
This guy is awesome. It was his first time at Giant. He normally ref's the intermediate games at SC. This guy was the coolest ref I've ever had. He kept everything fast paced. He didn't disappear on us. We just kept playing. When some people needed air, he would just keep games going with who ever was there. Even some 2 on 2.
Thank you Bruce! We'll see you at SC!
To conclude. . . Giant Paintball is horrible. If you see a middle-aged, heavy set, white lady named "Chris" at a Hollywood Sports park. . . run! She made we want to give up the sport.
Giant is a waste of money and time. Do yourself a favor, drive the extra 20 miles to SC or Jungle. And if you don't want to drive. . . just shoot each other in your back yard. . . it's going to be about the same thing (Well, at least the same size).
| Last edited on Monday, December 10th, 2007 at 8:30 am PST |
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| Date There: |
November 18th, 2007 |
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Paintball
Experience: |
3 years |
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Other Fields
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SC village is not in the area, but its my favorite. |
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Directions
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why would you want directions?? |
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| Review: |
Basically, here is the whole park. A parking lot that fits maybe 30 cars, 1 small speedball map, and 2 "scenario" maps that are the size of a speedball field. Everything is covered by this black mesh material. This is a place to go if you live in the area, and just want to go and play a few games, or have a birthday party or get together. Im a hardcore scenario player, so this was an absolute nightmare for me. Alot of little kids playing. There are no groups, so the little kids are playing in the same game with guys who are shooting full-auto. Refs were somewhat kinda ok. Not many staff members to help with air, calibration, etc. They have a nice little store that has alot of things you might need like pods, packs, hoppers, o rings, anti-fog, etc. Thats about it. |
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